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Obviously, you are trying to solicit negative remarks against the Arroyos. Will that make you happy? Too much hatred will bring you nowhere. Don't get carried away by too much politics. Philippine politics is too dirty. We're just being played around by these politicos, whether they are from the administration, opposition, Leftists, Rightists, Communists, etc. That's the reality of it. And this is what's bringing our country down.

this is harmless stuff. i've read worse things said about erap from some of the people (like lightspeed and lechon x) that are currently defending arroyo now in PEX, even though GMA is much more corrupt, incompetent, and illegitimate than her.

don't worry starlite, these guys have no sense of humor and are pikon because their idolo is in many ways worse than the one she replaced.

this is harmless stuff. i've read worse things said about erap from some of the people (like lightspeed and lechon x) that are currently defending arroyo now in PEX, even though GMA is much more corrupt, incompetent, and illegitimate than her.

you say weder weder lang yan, but i have yet to hear you ask for her removal from office. so i guess that means you're okay with the fake president staying in power huh?

and i'm more worried about the negative effects of arroyo's corruption, incompetency and illegitimacy now on this country than erap at this point. the guy's not a free man ferchrissakes, while GMA continues to do her damage to this country inside the confines of malacanang.

it's sad that to this day, the arroyo apologists are still using erap as a scapegoat and diversion for arroyo's fckups. mahiya naman kayo.

and i'm more worried about the negative effects of arroyo's corruption, incompetency and illegitimacy now on this country than erap at this point. the guy's not a free man ferchrissakes, while GMA continues to do her damage to this country inside the confines of malacanang.

pero booksale, magulang na tayo rito. look how many alternicks some pexer have or you have, .. take a look at the date of the registration. nandito na tayo since aydol erap was the prez, kaya wag na tayong mag bolahan pa.

ah this is what i'm talking about. i said i'm more worried about the negative effects of arroyo's corruption, incompetency and illegitimacy, at yan naman ang sagot ni Vision.

but really, most people don't give a ***** about other people's sex lives or their private lives. that is none of our business. so whether 3 or 4 ang kabit or anak ni erap or jose pidal sa labas, i don't give a *****. what they're worried more about is his/her conduct in public office--and with the benefit of hindsight, i think it is now safe to say na mas malala itong si Arroyo, not only because of her admin's more corrupt, but because she stole the presidency twice, which erap or fpj never did.

The two Philippines
The Do?a keeps talking about two faces of the Philippines. She did this in her State of the Nation Address last year. She has been repeating this wherever and whenever, making some of her legion of disbelievers wonder if this was a sub-conscious reference to her trademark "doble-cara" characteristic. You know, smile now, stab later.

Last Thursday, I did see the faces of two Philippines, on television at that. Towards noon, the news flashed the sordid details of the testimony of Jose Barredo, confessed "agent" of Feshan Philippines, the liquid fertilizer supplier most favored by Jocelyn "Joc-Joc" Bolante, the pride of Makati Rotary, second only to who else but the Big Mike.

Joc-Joc is so well known a Rotarian that he has eased out Ephraim Gino-Gino and Edgar Manda and Al Cusi and Jun Cortez and Ernest Villareal put together, all the friends of Manny Pacquiao?s patron who share the common denominator of being alumni of that Makati Rotary Club who were instantly drafted in the service of "good governance" by the Do?a the day after Edsa Dos.

In the evening, I saw on CNN a special report on child prisoners and the woeful, sub-human state they had to endure. ITV correspondent Chris Rogers showed and interviewed some of 20,000 children behind bars in this citadel of Christianity in the Orient, this "perla del mar Oriente, nuestro perdido Eden" as Jose Rizal called it. Some of the children were booked for petty theft, others guilty of nothing. They were locked up in overcrowded jails along with hardened adult criminals, sharing bed with pedophiles, open to every kind of wretched abuse. I could not suppress tears as images of modern-day barbarity flashed on the screen.

"Dalawang mukha ng Pilipinas", La Do?a keeps preaching. Two Philippines indeed. One for the rich and the powerful, like Joc-Joc, who coops himself up in an airport hotel at Chicago?s O?Hare where I hope the sub-zero wind chill temperatures would freeze him to kingdom come. Afraid to fly back to this country where he owns mansions and fishponds, the latest-model luxury cars, and other such trappings of wealth. Afraid to explain to the Senate how to get rich quick by mixing 5 tablespoons of urea with one liter of water and selling the cocktail to the government at 1,500 pesos per useless bottle of "instant" liquid fertilizer.

Yes, an insider at the Department of Agriculture tells us so. Five pesos worth of urea, a fertilizer that fetches close to one thousand pesos per bag, diluted with water, assume it is distilled Wilkins, or Absolute or whatever, placed in a bottle, with a regular market retail price of 150 per pop, which gives Barredo?s bosses a humongous profit already (Compute it: 5 pesos plus water equals less than 15 pesos. That?s the cost, folks!). Somewhere between the taxpayer who pays this lousy government the taxes it splurges on the likes of Joc-Joc and his bosses, La Do?a y su esposo, 150 pesos to this Feshan supplier with the fictitious address mutates a thousand-fold into 1,500 pesos. That?s because it?s "win-win", everybody happy.

This is a minor digression. I recall when I was a young teen-ager glued to the then black-and-white television set, seeing the Do?a?s papa Dadong marching into the Liberal Party convention to the tune of "Happy Days are Here Again". That was the theme song of the Liberal Party. I don?t know which song the Liberals now march to. Is it Chopin?s Funevre for the Drilon wing and "Happy Days" for the Tukayo wing? That?s the kind of scenario the gloating Do?a and her Boy Mike would deliriously love to imagine.